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One Down and Four Up

Pushing Leaves cover

This song appeared in BMW Owners News magazine
along with my story "Life Imitating Art--as I
rediscover riding" in September 2008.
                           

– Performed by:Phoenix
Kim Smith – Vocals, Guitar
Dave Morgan – Drums
Bill Johnson – Bass
Tom Horn – Backing Vocals

– Words by Mark L Berry & Music by Kim Smith in St Albans, England
– This sound recording copyright(P)2007SneakyHooks www.sneakyhooks.com

 

Here’s Kim’s music video!

 

One Down and Four Up – lyrics

Kick start
Spread my legs apart
I need
The open road today Kim Smith Singing with Dave Morgan

Give me
An easy ride
Take me
Anywhere, take me away

One down and four up
Feeling through turns we’re leaning from side to side
One down and four up
There are no seatbelts on this E-ticket ride

I try
To read your mind
There’s no
Telling what I’ll find

Miles fly
By in a blur
Knees squeeze
I feel the engine purr

One down and four up
Feeling through turns we’re leaning from side to side
One down and four up
There are no seatbelts on this E-ticket ride

Wrap my
Arms around you
And I lace my fingers
across your heart

If you
Only knew
That I have loved you
from the start

I feel
Wind rushing through my hair
Our Hearts
Are racing the engine
Like two
Bats out of hell straight to heaven

Hold tight
It’s just you and me
Saddled up
We’re always rolling free

You are
My love my guy
And we
Will never say goodbye

One down and four up
Feeling through turns we’re leaning from side to side
One down and four up
There are no seatbelts on this E-ticket ride
One down and four up
Feeling through turns we’re leaning from side to side
One down and four up
There are no seatbelts on this E-ticket ride
One down and four up
Feeling through turns we’re leaning from side to side
One down and four up
There are no seatbelts on this E-ticket ride

Words by Mark L Berry & Music by Kim Smith Copyright©2006-2007

 

BMW Owner's of AmericaHere is an article featuring the song One Down and Four Up
September BMW Owners News Magazine
Mark L Berry #139933

Life Imitating Art As I rediscover riding
One Man’s Love for Motorcycles

To read the BMW ON article—click here or on each image

Life Imitaing Art article page 1Life Imitaing Art article page 2

More than 20 years after I earned my motorcycle endorsement, how did I fall in love with riding again? It’s a case of ‘life imitating art’ as I wrote my first novel and decided I had to have the bike from my own book…

 

Control room at The UOn “The U” with Travelin T
One Down & Four Up Radio Interview
(47 second Video Exerpt)
– I explain how Kim Smith and I collaborated on this song from across the Atlantic Ocean:

 

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